Everything we do is by faith. We ALL have faith. We just choose to put it in different things. I want to put my faith solely in my Savior. I am not where I need to be, but praise God that I'm not where I was. When all is said and done, I want to chose God’s way and not my way; I want to respond with obedience and put my trust in God and not my fears, and when I am called, I want to step out in faith even when I can’t see what lies ahead. I want to “walk by faith and not by sight”.

Monday, January 26, 2009

I was initially going to say that if you feel like you have it rough or if you’re having ‘one of those days’, take a look at this video. But, on second thought, I really don’t want this video to serve as a vehicle to make you feel better about your life. Grateful- yes. Humbled- yes. Angry- yes. And, I’m sure that it will make you re-evaluate your day and the problems you may be experiencing, and that’s fine- things do need to be put into perspective. However, given the choice, I’d rather that this video disturb you. I’d rather that it anger you because it sometimes takes those emotions to motivate us to action.

Please realize that I’m really not trying to come across as condemning or self-righteous because I’m just as guilty as the next person, if not more guilty. I make assumptions all the time. I assume that someone else will take care of it. I assume that it’ll just get better on it’s own. I assume that one person can’t make a difference. But, really, I’m just making excuses and it’s not even that I’m making excuses to anyone in particular, rather it’s like I’m trying to justify my lack of action in my own mind. I’m trying to make myself feel better.

I’d really encourage you to watch the video all the way through. It can be easy to press ‘pause’ and turn away, (I did a couple of times) but these kids and so many others like them around the world, don’t have the option to press pause and turn away from their lives. They are faced with these circumstances all the time and not just for the 9 minutes you’ll spend on this video.

I don’t have answers. I don’t know what I’m going to do with this information yet and I pray that God will give me some insight as to the next step I should be taking. I did, however, want to provide you with a couple of links to world-wide organizations that offer you the opportunity to sponsor a child in a third world country, if that's something you feel led to do. These are reputable non-profits and they truly do some amazing work around the world. Just click on the banner below and it will route you to the website(s).

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About Me

I originally created this blog to help me document the steps leading up to my missions trip to Thailand, the actual trip itself and my thoughts afterwards. But, I decided to continue my blogging because I enjoyed it so much. I'm hoping that this blog will give you some laughs, but also that it will give comfort to those who think that they are the only ones who are afraid to try the unknown and that it will open your eyes to the strength God provides in your weakest moments and when you think that you can't do something, you're right- but, God can. If He can do something with me, then He can (and wants to!) do absolutely amazing things through your life too...if you'll just hand the steering wheel over to the One who can take you there.